Blackpink’s youtube era was shocking impressive

Yeah, and their numbers are still impressive. Jump is almost at 300M.

kpop will never reach the impact which 3rd gen had.

Its weird how kpop is increasing in recognition, getting acknowleged, getting bigger concert audience but none of the new groups have impact and craze which bts and bp had during their peak.

Also, Blackpink still have crazy momentum on youtube. Their solos alone are pulling huge numbers there. Jump would have much better views if yg had decided to go with normal release schedule and not the non-sense they pulled. It killed a lot of initial hype

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kpop will never reach the impact which 3rd gen had.

Its weird how kpop is increasing in recognition, getting acknowleged, getting bigger concert audience but none of the new groups have impact and craze which bts and bp had during their peak.

Also, Blackpink still have crazy momentum on youtube. Their solos alone are pulling huge numbers there. Jump would have much better views if yg had decided to go with normal release schedule and not the non-sense they pulled. It killed a lot of initial hype

This!!!

I think k-pop is more "well spread" now than in 3rd gen that's why it's bigger, in 3rd gen just a few few top groups did great at touring and physical sales with BTS being THE wall, but nowadays we have like 5, 6 ggs selling +1M each release, something that just BP and Twice did in 3rd gen and we have a lot of bgs selling +2M, +3M when in 3rd gen was just BTS, EXO and SVT. The same with tours, nowadays a lot of groups are touring way more than 3rd gen groups. So it's more about balanced groups doing really well rather than 5 in 3rd gen doing great while the others got more recognition bc of their songs being hits. And lbr, having BTS and BP would make any gen as the biggest!

And yes, even BP solos are doing great on yt, truly their home!

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kpop will never reach the impact which 3rd gen had.

Its weird how kpop is increasing in recognition, getting acknowleged, getting bigger concert audience but none of the new groups have impact and craze which bts and bp had during their peak.

Also, Blackpink still have crazy momentum on youtube. Their solos alone are pulling huge numbers there. Jump would have much better views if yg had decided to go with normal release schedule and not the non-sense they pulled. It killed a lot of initial hype

Well...because youtube views aren't relevant anymore ever since Billboard changed their charting formula to increase the value of premium streams and decrease the value of youtube views (essentially making them worthless).

It's pretty crazy even today they put up insane numbers, and Jump views are largely organic, no propped up by ad views. I really doubt their YT numbers will ever be touched, especially since streaming has changed over the years. Like almost 50% of their disco has 1b+ views lol

What's hilarious to me is i used to have all these fights with folks that hated Teddy's allegedly tired out "girl crush sound". Songs like KTL, HYLT, and Boombaya were hated on like crazy while i defended them. Everyone kept propping up mid songs like Whistle instead.

But we see the true popularity ranking right here.

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Well...because youtube views aren't relevant anymore ever since Billboard changed their charting formula to increase the value of premium streams and decrease the value of youtube views (essentially making them worthless).

Idc about billboard, (blocked that word on twt because armys were weirdly obsess with its charting in 2021😒).

Personal opinion, yt views shows more about actual popularity of song than spotify. Any song which is popular among gp globally, will have higher yt views (without ads).

Add to that, they’re so close to reaching 100M subscribers